Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of needs. We are committed to providing responsive, person centred care which promotes the independence, wellbeing and social inclusion of the people we support.

The Children and Young People’s Safer Space, is an innovative and exciting service which provides children and young people who are in mental health crisis or emotional distress with a safe and supportive overnight service in a homely, non-clinical setting.

Children and young people are offered an appropriate range of support and activities to de-escalate distress and are signposted to other support, advice and activities that will help them to live safely and healthily in their communities. The service acts as a liaison between children, young people, their families, referrers and other relevant professionals and organisations to ensure holistic, wraparound support is in place.

The service currently operates 22:00 to 10:00 seven nights a week, 365 days a year; we are now recruiting for staff to provide additional evening hours from 18:30pm to 22:00pm daily, improving accessibility and extending the remit of the service. Each evening shift will be staffed by two workers; one Support Worker, and one Senior Support Worker.

You will engage with young people; building rapport and offering therapeutic and relationship-based activities and providing positive, recovery-focussed mental health support in a personalised way to de-escalate crises. Your role will include providing distraction activities, encouraging self-soothing and ongoing self care through a mix of one to one and small group work. You will be responsible for managing risk and promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of all children and young people who visit the service.

You will work closely with our key referrers at First Response, the Emergency Duty Team, B Positive Pathways, CAMHS and the police, to provide comprehensive, wraparound support which meets the identified needs of individuals and promotes their recovery.

Additionally, as a Senior Support Worker, you will work alongside the senior team to deputise for the Manager as required to ensure the smooth running of the service, offer informal and formal supervision to junior staff, relief staff, students and volunteers and will contribute to the ongoing development of the service.

If you have excellent interpersonal skills and are supportive, proactive, responsible, good at
de-escalating crisis and listening to others then we would like to hear from you.

Experience of working in the care and support sector is essential for a Senior Support Worker role. This role does not involve delivering personal care.

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